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<h1>Version 4.6.0</h1>

<h2>About WSO2 API Control Plane</h2>

<p>
    WSO2 API Control Plane is a powerful platform for creating, managing, consuming and
    monitoring web APIs. It combines tried and tested SOA best practices with modern
    day API management principles to solve a wide range of enterprise challenges
    associated with API provisioning, governance and integration.
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<p>
    WSO2 API Control Plane 4.6.0 is developed on top of the revolutionary
    <a href="http://wso2.org/projects/carbon">Carbon platform</a>
    (Middleware a' la carte), and is based on OSGi which provides
    better modularity for your SOA architecture.
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<h2>About WSO2 Carbon</h2>

<p>WSO2 Carbon is a component based Enterprise SOA platform. The
    design of
    WSO2 Carbon focuses on separating the key functionality of the SOA
    platform
    into separate pluggable Carbon components that can be mixed and
    matched, like
    customizable building blocks. This allows you to add only the
    functionality
    you need to start up, and continue to add product capabilities
    as your
    requirements grow. This helps a business to quickly adapt to
    changes.</p>

<p>OSGi is used as the underlying core modularization technology
    to build the
    Carbon platform. The Carbon framework is shipped with Eclipse Equinox
    by
    default, but can be supported on Spring dm Server, Felix or Knoplerfish
    if
    required. The OSGi technology even allows you to write your business
    functionality as an OSGi component and deploy it in the existing Carbon
    platform. </p>

<p> For a quick start on using the WSO2 Carbon
    platform, the Carbon components are pre-assembled into the following
    products: </p>
<ul id="CarbonProducts">
    <li><a href="https://wso2.com/integration/micro-integrator/">WSO2
        Micro Integrator</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://wso2.com/identity-and-access-management/">WSO2
        Identity Server</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://wso2.com/integration/streaming-integrator/">WSO2
        Streaming Integrator</a></li>
</ul>
<p>You can assemble your own products by combining
    components and
    deploying them in a preferred architecture. </p>

<p>The WSO2 Carbon platform gives maximum flexibility to adapt
    the middleware
    to your enterprise architecture, rather than adapt your architecture to
    the
    middleware. </p>

<h2>About WSO2</h2>

<p>WSO2 is an Open Source technology company building Open Source
    middleware
    platforms for Web services and SOA. WSO2 delivers integrated middleware
    stacks based on components developed at Apache, offering industry
    leading
    performance and convenience for customers. </p>

<p>Founded in August 2005 by pioneers in Web services and Open
    Source, WSO2
    engineers contribute heavily to many key Apache Web services projects. </p>

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